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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distorted; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Distorting.]
     1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside
        physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Whose face was distorted with pain.   --Thackeray.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to
        twist aside mentally or morally.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and
              distort the understandings of men.    --Tillotson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort
        passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
  
     Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distorted; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Distorting.]
     1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside
        physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
  
              Whose face was distorted with pain.   --Thackeray.
  
     2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to
        twist aside mentally or morally.
  
              Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and
              distort the understandings of men.    --Tillotson.
  
     3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort
        passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
  
     Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  distorted
       adj 1: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with
              contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments
              of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn:
               contorted, twisted]
       2: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed
          thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an
          ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot";
          "misshapen old fingers" [syn: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed,
           misshapen]
       3: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many
          of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to
          reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: misrepresented,
           perverted, twisted]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  distorted
     vb.
     (infl of en distort  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  distorted
     vb.
     (infl of en distort  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  distorted
     vb.
     (infl of en distort  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  distorted
     vb.
     (infl of en distort  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  distorted
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm d istort ed)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  distorted
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en distort ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb distort)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  مشوّه

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ 
  zkreslený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ 
  deformovaný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ 
  překroucený

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  deformiert, verformt
   see: distort, distorting, distorts, distorted
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  deformierte, verformte
   see: distort, distorting, distorted, distorts
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  verballhornt
     Synonym: corrupted
  
   see: corrupt sth., distort sth., corrupting, distorting, corrupt a phrase, distort a text
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  verdreht, verzerrt, verfälscht, verfremdet
        "give a distorted picture of his childhood"  - ein Zerrbild von seiner Kindheit zeichnen/vermitteln
     Synonyms: skewed, warped
  
   see: distort sth., skew sth., warp sth., distorting, skewing, warping, distorts, skews, warps, distorted, skewed, warped, distort/skew the facts, distort/skew the result, distort/skew the figures/data, warp sb.'s judgement, External influences may distort the results.
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  verdrehte, verzerrte, verfälschte, verfremdete
        "give a distorted picture of his childhood"  - ein Zerrbild von seiner Kindheit zeichnen/vermitteln
     Synonyms: skewed, warped
  
   see: distort sth., skew sth., warp sth., distorting, skewing, warping, distorted, skewed, warped, distorts, skews, warps, distort/skew the facts, distort/skew the result, distort/skew the figures/data, warp sb.'s judgement, External influences may distort the results.
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  verdreht, verwunden
     Synonyms: twisted, warped, skewed
  
   see: distort, twist, warp, skew sth., distorting, twisting, warping, skewing
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  
  διαστραμμένος

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  iskrivljen

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/
  torzult

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/dɪˈstɔɹtəd/, /dɪˈstɔɹtɪd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "distorted":
     aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong,
     amiss, anamorphous, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray,
     asymmetric, at fault, awry, bastard, bent, beside the mark,
     blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, catachrestic, checked,
     cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contorted, corrupt,
     counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked,
     crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defaced, defective, deflected,
     deflective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative,
     diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disfigured, dispersed,
     dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, errant,
     erring, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious,
     false, falsified, faultful, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive,
     flawed, flectional, flexed, garbled, heretical, heterodox,
     illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, inflective,
     irregular, junky, keloidal, kinked, labyrinthine, lopsided,
     make-believe, man-made, marred, misapprehended, misconceived,
     misconstrued, misinterpreted, misread, mistaken, misunderstood,
     mock, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track,
     one-sided, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phony, pimpled,
     pimply, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer,
     refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scabbed, scabby,
     scarified, scarred, scattered, self-contradictory, self-styled,
     sham, shoddy, simulated, skew, skewed, so-called, soi-disant,
     split, sprung, spurious, straying, supposititious, synthetic, tin,
     tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, unauthentic, unfactual,
     ungenuine, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsymmetric,
     untrue, warped, wide, wrong
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 扭曲的;被歪曲的

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     adj. 扭曲的

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